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Restore previous session/tabs

Submitted by Stroport on October 3, 2023 - 5:13am

Hi everybody,

Since few days don't know exactly when or why, when I close and reopen Firefox portable the previous tabs are not restored. I checked that the parameter is correctly set in the settings. Maybe it happened after the last update or the one before. To update to a new version I always use the method mentioned in the FAQ (overwrite the previous)
Any idea or verification I could do ? It has always worked correctly since many months

Problems with Firefox Portable 118.0.1.

Submitted by gaveitatry on September 30, 2023 - 6:15pm

First of all, I want to thank you for Portable Apps and Firefox Portable. Too many developers think that I am ungrateful, entitled, that I expect them to rush to make changes, etc. So I want to go ahead and say, thank you.

I have been using Firefox Portable for many years. If I had to guess, I've been using it for around 3 years and 2 months now, because that is how old my Portable Apps website account is. But it's also possible that I used Firefox Portable longer than that and just didn't bother to create an account until slightly over three years ago.

[Fixed] Firefox Portable 118.0 multiple instances not working properly

Submitted by Bardenseer on September 28, 2023 - 9:41am

Hello,

for several years now I'm using three local installations of FF Portable on my PC.

I installed (extracted) all three of them to different directories (which I have full control over). I'm using them all at the same time for different purposes. Ofc FirefoxPortable.ini has the AllowMultipleInstances=true set. Up to version 117.0.1 everything was fine.

However I upgraded to version 118 today and now only the very first instance I start opens as expected. When I try to open the second or third instance they instead just open a new window of the first instance.

Firefox 117.x and 118 Bug

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Submitted by bremaya on September 27, 2023 - 8:16pm

Firefox Portable 117 or 118 always closes abruptly when downloading any file from the internet, I tested the normal version (installed from the official Mozilla website) and the error does not happen, I copied the profile recently created by Firefox to the Firefox Portable folder and the error It didn't happen either, I think it has something to do with the default Firefox Portable profile.

I wanted a way to resolve this error because I don't want to have to recreate the entire profile from scratch, customize Firefox and my extensions.

How can I set the Cache to my FirefoxPortable folder?

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Submitted by Wisewiz on September 15, 2023 - 10:12pm

Installed the latest Firefox Portable today. Loving how well it does everything. My concern: I'm using the portable to avoid Firefox writing data to my C:\ drive. I have the program installed on D:\ in D:\Utilities II\FirefoxPortable, and I'd like to direct it to put the daily cache files in a directory in that folder, say, \Other\cache. I can't find help online that dates within this century (!), and I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

Multiple download failures of Firefox 117 through the Platform updater resulted in previous install corruption

Submitted by chris78 on August 30, 2023 - 10:54am

The FirefoxPortable folder only contains the Data subfolder. The Other and App subfolders are gone.
So I can no longer try another update.
I'm currently downloading the *.paf.exe file manually (as there may be something wrong with platform updater because I'm also experiencing download issues with Google Chrome 64-bit) and will try to install it back that way.

Can't remove Facebook when starting Firefox Portable

Submitted by Tetsuooo on August 14, 2023 - 1:19am

This is driving me nuts. Since recently I have Facebook appearing along with my other tabs no matter what I do.
What I did :
- delete facebook.com in history
- delete the whole history
- disable every extensions
- make sure default page should be a blank page
- delete profile
- delete any Mozilla folder from AppData/Local or Roaming
- reinstall Firefox Portable entirely
- restart the computer

Firefox ESR crashes when AlwaysUse32Bit=true

Submitted by Astrologeos on July 24, 2023 - 1:59pm

Hello!

Today I noticed that my computer was more sluggish than usual.

I did some digging and found out that I was running the 64bit version of PortableApps' Firefox ESR portable because I forgot to set up a FirefoxPortable.ini file.

However, when I make the file and write "AlwaysUse32Bit=true" in it, Firefox ESR Portable refuses to boot up, even with a clean profile.

What gives?

FF to FF ESR Automatically with FF 115 (Win7)

Submitted by frapper on July 23, 2023 - 10:40am

I read on Ghacks that "Mozilla plans to migrate Firefox Stable users on these three Windows versions to the Firefox ESR channel when Firefox 115 is released. This happens automatically and this special version of Firefox ESR will receive security updates until September 2024, its end of support date."

I'm running Win7 with a test install of FF Portable 114.0.2. When I install FF Portable 115.0.2 to that folder it remains regular FF Portable 115.0.2, not ESR, at least according to Help>About. Am I missing something? Will it continue to be regular FF Portable? Thanks.

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